January 30, 2009

This is a short note I wrote when I was travelling yesterday.(From my Mobile Notepad)

I should have brought pen and paper with me but i didn't. And now i am feeling to write something. Life is unpredictable! Yes it is... I don't know why but somehow i just feel so. Some say that "a point comes in life when we loose control of what is happening to us." In the book “The Alchemist” it is referred to as the biggest lie. And i support that, we are completely in control of what happens to us. I just feel that if we really need something desperately, we eventually end up with getting that. Though it takes time; and in the meantime we just loose hope of getting the things we want... And believe me that's the time when we so close to what we need. (Just keep your hope alive!)

I heard Obama say "we have chosen hope over fear" it has a greater meaning attached to it... He won not because the other candidate wasn't good enough, its because of Hope. Hope multiplied... Many people wanted him to win and that's is what happened as we see him today.

There are times when we feel tired of trying, we loose our faith in winning, all the negative things sum up producing even a bigger negative. Believe me if that happens it means we are more close to reach our goal.That's the time when we should hit it one more time...

Yes i assure you are going to win it this time, and don't worry if you don't because that means you are one step closer to your ultimate dream.

January 28, 2009

January 27, 2009

I am much of a music guy. I was thinking of reviewing some music albums but never did it on a blog. I just had ‘em with myself. So here is it my first public music review of the upcoming movie by Rang De Basanti fame Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra.

Aarti - Tumre Bhavan Mein by Rekha Bharadwaj My Rating:
Just Listen to it..., you will be surprised with Rekha's voice, it doesnt sound like her. This one match to "Ik Onkar" from "Rang De Basanti(RDB)". And believe me Rehman recreats the magic in this song also.

Arziyan by Javed Ali
My Rating:
I must admit it... This one is similar to "Piya Haaji Ali" from the movie Fiza, the same starting and of course, similar beats. But lyrics are nice. So if you're a quawaali lover, you will going to love this one too.

Bhor Bhaye by Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
My Rating:
All Shreya Ghoshal fans, this one is for you. Here she did some superb classical singing. A Pure classical track, comes like a surprise in this album.

Delhi - VI by Blaaze
My Rating:
Yes Outstanding!
Just listen to it and you will feel the same energy and excitement you felt when you heard and saw Aamir Khan rocking on "Apni to Pathshala" from RDB. Gr8 song to listen to and what I feel is the best song of whole album. Rehman is really rocking with this one! French Rap part is also really great to listen to.

Dil Gira Dafatan by Ash King
My Rating:
I don't know about you but I don't liked this one much. I don't know if the way it is pictured will make me change my mind but i did not heard it fully. Didn't liked it much either.

Genda Phool by Rekha Bharadwaj
My Rating:
As soon as it starts you feel the familiar voice of "Beede jali le.." and "Namak ishq ka..." but as it starts flowing you seem to enjoy it. It has got such a groovy rhythm attached to it. Rehman really knows how to make one move with the groove. And when you really start enjoying it even more it ends :( But overall a Good song. You'll like it.

Masakali by Mohit Chauhan
My Rating:
I don't know why they specially choose this song for the first promo? Maybe we'll know after the movie comes. But for now I don't find it any different than other songs in the album. Yes it has got this different feel attached to it when you listen this one, just an OK song for me though.

Noor by Amitabh Bachchan
Sorry guys! I am no one to rate Amitbh Bachhan. Just listen to it. You will love this.

Rehna Tu by A.R. Rahman
Again, cannot rate this song either. But i liked this song, not very different but its nice.

January 25, 2009

January 21, 2009

I too watched what the whole world was watching, waiting for him to speak.

The moment came quite, but he was loud enough, so the whole world could hear. The “CHANGE” everybody was hoping for is finally here…

Excerpts from his speech:

“My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.”

“Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America - they will be met.”

“For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act - not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.”

“To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”

“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history.”

“Let it be told to the future world…that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive…that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it].”

“In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.”

January 20, 2009

“Sonnet” – A small poem which follow a strict pattern or rhyming scheme.

I have never heard one before, cause I am not much into literature. Yesterday when my Sissy said the whole sonnet 116, I suddenly realized the beauty of it. The words are really beautiful and so is the meaning behind them. So here it is…

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Explanation in modern English: I would not admit that anything could interfere with the union of two people who love each other. Love that alters with changing circumstances is not love, nor if it bends from its firm state when someone tries to destroy it. Oh no, it's an eternally fixed point that watches storms but is never itself shaken by them. It is the star by which every lost ship can be guided: one can calculate it's distance but not gauge its quality. Love doesn't depend on Time, although the rosy lips and cheeks of youth eventually come within the compass of Time's sickle. Love doesn't alter as the days and weeks go by but endures until death. If I'm wrong about this then I've never written anything and no man has ever loved.

January 05, 2009

New year and once again a new blog. There are reasons I once again switched to blogspot and that's because I was really tired with my wordpress account. It took time to load time to login, more time to upload things and the list goes on and on and on...

So I am just continuing to write here what I actually started in my other blog (heartrobber).
Stay Tuned... :)